Two More then FINISHED!

Tommy has only two more treatments and then he's DONE! I honestly do not know how he has done this...not to mention as well as he has. Daryl and I were looking at his pictures from the last 12 months and feel like Tommy was robbed from part of his childhood. He's aged so much, not only in the physical form, but also in wisdom.

Tommy lit the Christmas tree at the hospital in a formal tree lighting ceremony, which was followed by him getting serenaded by the Army band at his room when we arrived back to the floor. It was all VERY special and if there is one event Tommy can remember from all this treatment is this ceremony.

Daryl's parents came to help with Maggie while Tommy was getting treatment. It was comforting to have them here and when Tommy came home we had an early Christmas celebration before they had to go home later that day.

This week has been hard on Tommy. Tuesday night he spiked a fever of 102 which landed us back in the hospital. The nurse had a heck of a time accessing his port. So after seeing four needles and each one was attempted three to four times of accessing him (so do the math, that means she poked and tried 12 to 16 times!) I finally told the Dr to get me gloves because I was going to do it! It was intense and I was exhausted watching her try, and besides, I had been fully trained how to do it (thank you Susie!) so on my first attempt FINALLY he was fully accessed. We spent a couple of days in the hospital getting him antibiotics and a blood transfusion. So we came home late Wednesday and spent ALL day Friday again at the hospital for yet another transfusion, this time of platelets. He's scheduled for chemo tomorrow, but I'm 99% certain his platelets are still too low so he won't get it. If that's the case, we'll try again later this week because of the holidays and wanting to get these last two treatments over ASAP.

More to follow later this week and maybe those photos I keep teasing you with. Take care and God bless. <><